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The Panic of 1873 was the start of the Long Depression, a severe nationwide economic depression in the United States that lasted until 1879. It was precipitated by the bankruptcy of the Philadelphia...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Crime of '73 (United States history), In 1873 Congress had discontinued the minting of silver dollars, an action later stigmatized by friends of silver as the Crime of ’73. As the depression deepened, inflationists began campaigns to persuade Congress to resume coinage of silver ...
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Facts about Crime of '73: silver currency controversy, In 1873 Congress had discontinued the minting of silver dollars, an action later stigmatized by friends of silver as the Crime of ’73. As the depression deepened, inflationists began campaigns to persuade Congress to resume coinage of silver dollars and to repeal the ...
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This site will present you an episode of American history which is not often talked about. ... In the last decades of the 19th century a battle raged in the United States around a problem so arcane in nature that very few understood it at all, but so important in scope that everybody ... The Crime of 1873 - animated GIF banner...
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Mine operators remembered the advantage of having a ready market through government purchase and began to refer to demonetization as the "Crime of '73." The mining interests were still a small force, but they found that they could increase their clout by allying with the farmers.
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Due to pressure from the eastern capitalists, Congress, in 1873, decided to drop the silver dollar, literally de-monetizing silver. This became known as the "crime of '73." A depression followed. In 1875, the "Specie Resumption Act," required all currency in circulation to be backed by gold.
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Real Change: George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes and the Crime of '73 - Speech may be silvern and silence golden; but if a lump of gold is onl : Encyclopedia.com ... George Washington Cable and Bonaventure: Encyclopedia.com home page About us Help Site feedback Privacy policy Terms and conditions...
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In United States History , "The Crime of 73" was a much debated shift from a Bi-metallic standard to a Gold ( Coinage ) only standard, with passage of the Fourth Coinage Act in 1873 , thereby creating a Gold Standard . Western miners and others such as farmers called this the "Crime of 73". ... Article Index for; Crime...
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The Fourth Coinage Act was enacted by the United States Congress in 1873 and embraced the Gold Standard and de-monetized Silver . Western Mining interests and others who wanted silver in circulation labeled this measure the "Crime of 73". For about five years, gold was the only metallic standard in the United States.
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